Clemson history

Feb 10, 2013, 9:54 PM

As some of you may know, I post some short segments about Clemson's history from time to time (I kind of like to think of myself as the tnet historian). Now that I'm a second semester senior and I have more time on my hands, I'm going to try to compile a series of some funny stories and interesting facts about our beloved university.

Many people here may remember living in Johnstone or some other freshman dorm with "character", but these don't compare with the first university barracks that housed the original corp of cadets. The rooms were located on the second and third floors of the barracks as the ground floor housed the dining area. Cadets were packed three to a room which made living quite uncomfortable (the picture below was just a model room, all others had three beds). Fortunately, all Clemson buildings were equipped with indoor plumbing and running water--an extreme rarity amongst most South Carolina buildings at the time. John Francis Calhoun, grandnephew of John C. Calhoun worked as the overseer of the dining area and his wife as the house mother of the barracks. Clemson paid them $600 and $200 a year respectively. John F. Calhoun oversaw a small number of kitchen staff, all of which lived in small wooden cottages in what is now Death Valley.

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conditioning in metal buildings roasting under late summer and early September sun! My roommate and I tried a two-bit oscillating fan from Judge Keller's, which cost about five bucks...and we had to scrape the $$$ up. When that proved hopeless, we convinced the Judge's son to let us swap in the fan for a breeze box, which cost ten dollars...and pay him the other five over the next two months.

We held our heads up high, because we were proud to boast of that fan, which few others could afford! LOL

Most athletes lived in the cans with us, so most of us became fast friends with the teams...and they'd join right in with us in the slip-and-slides down the halls, etc. Oddly enough, I got so used to the cans, that I lived on various halls my entire four years at CU, being luckly enough to be on top floors.

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wonderful, love Clemson history***

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Nor in August 1965, when I enrolled. Think no air

Re: Clemson history- a Tin Cans question

Yes asbestos. Still some on campus

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